Today we aLim kids, (Tricia, Naanise, Asia, Agnes, Frankie, Ethan, Kryzjon, Erastus and I) went for a mathematical discovery walk out in Panmure. We saw shapes,tessellating patterns on floors, numbers on the buses and prices on food. We took photos of stuff like the phone box, bank and the map of the world.
We went to Settlers Tours a place where you go and pay or book a flight fare to go somewhere like Fiji. A nice travel agent named Pauline (my aunt) was very nice and answered all the questions we asked her. She told us the price for our age like for instance when you're 12 and 13 you have to pay the adult price and when your 11 you have 75 percent off the adult price.
We were talking about the exchange rate and the transfer. A transfer is when you hop into a plane to go to Samoa and when you get there you hop on to another plane. Pauline taught me a lot of things about the airlines and being a travel agent and other stuff like when you book a flight and the next day you come in and say I want to cancel my flight but then you are in the dead zone at the same time because you can’t get your money back.
Pauline also mentioned about being a travel agent and how important it is to be good at maths like in your multiplication, geometry, subtraction,fractions, addition,division and percentages. When Pauline was telling us about being an travel agent it made think that perhaps I might like to be a travel agent in the future.
Bank Travel Agent
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1 comments:
It was a very interesting visit to the travel agent. Quite a coincidence that the agent was your auntie. It was very interesting to hear about the mathematics involved in this job.
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